Hypothesis  

Heated indoor swimming pools, infants, and the pathogenesis of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis: a neurogenic hypothesis

Marianne E McMaster Environmental Health 2011, 10:86 (5 October 2011)

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Research  

Tonsillar ectopia in idiopathic scoliosis: does it play a role in the pathogenesis and prognosis or is it only an incidental finding?

Kasim Abul-Kasim, Angelica Overgaard, Magnus K Karlsson, Acke Ohlin Scoliosis 2009, 4:25 (12 November 2009)

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Review  

Pathogenesis of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis in girls - a double neuro-osseous theory involving disharmony between two nervous systems, somatic and autonomic expressed in the spine and trunk: possible dependency on sympathetic nervous system and hormones with implications for medical therapy

R Geoffrey Burwell, Ranjit K Aujla, Michael P Grevitt, Peter H Dangerfield, Alan Moulton, Tabitha L Randell, Susan I Anderson Scoliosis 2009, 4:24 (31 October 2009)

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Research  

Relatively lower body mass index is associated with an excess of severe truncal asymmetry in healthy adolescents: Do white adipose tissue, leptin, hypothalamus and sympathetic nervous system influence truncal growth asymmetry?

Theodoros B Grivas, R Geoffrey Burwell, Constantinos Mihas, Elias S Vasiliadis, Georgios Triantafyllopoulos, Angelos Kaspiris Scoliosis 2009, 4:13 (30 June 2009)

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